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enIowa Lt. Governor makes a stop in Storm Lakehttp://www.stormlake.com/articles/2015/03/18/iowa-lt-governor-makes-stop-storm%E2%80%88lake
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><em><strong><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Kim Reynolds talks to women about lack of daycare in area</span></span></strong></em></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">By WHITNEY ROBINSON</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Iowa’s Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds wants women to thrive in their everyday lives and support each other.</span></p><div class="premium-message"><p>Full text available to subscribers only. If you are currently an online subscriber, you can login <a href="/user">here</a>. To subscribe, please follow <a href="/content/subscribe">this link</a>.</p>
</div></div></div></div>Wed, 18 Mar 2015 13:18:04 +0000admin7625 at http://www.stormlake.comIowa Lt. governor to stop in SLhttp://www.stormlake.com/articles/2015/03/11/iowa-lt-governor-stop-sl
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span style="font-size:16px;"><em><strong><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Kim Reynolds will discuss women’s issues as part of National Women’s History Month</span></strong></em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds announced that she is embarking upon a statewide tour that includes Storm Lake to celebrate National Women’s History Month in March. </span></p><div class="premium-message"><p>Full text available to subscribers only. If you are currently an online subscriber, you can login <a href="/user">here</a>. To subscribe, please follow <a href="/content/subscribe">this link</a>.</p>
</div></div></div></div>Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:55:10 +0000clare@stormlake.com7537 at http://www.stormlake.comBranstad runs, againhttp://www.stormlake.com/articles/2013/07/25/branstad-runs-again
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Terry Branstad is gearing up to run for governor again in 2014. He has no reason not to. At 66, the Boone Republican is in excellent health. He is sharp. He is working as hard as he ever has. He has no problem raising funds or rebuilding a ground campaign. Any Democrat who has any chance of beating him already has sworn off running against him. When he wins, he will become the longest-serving governor in US history assuming he serves out the term — 16 years in his first go at governor, then eight in his second round, interrupted by the terms of Democrats Tom Vilsack and Chet Culver. And before that, he was lieutenant governor to Gov. Bob Ray for 14 years. He has served in the executive branch for 34 years. He is experienced and well-regarded even by his opponents.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">We have known Terry Branstad since he was a state representative from Lake Mills in Winnebago County. We like him. He is as honest as any politician. He loves Iowa. He loves being governor. He even loves taking heat from his detractors.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">We wish he wouldn’t run. Here’s why:</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">It’s time for new blood.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">It happens to every political boss. He develops a hubris. It can’t be helped.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">So you’re the governor. You’re late for another rubber-chicken fundraiser. You tell your driver — a state trooper — to step on it. Any red-blooded man wants to put the pedal to the metal, especially when the commander tells you to. Other cops notice, and the whole thing blows up.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">The well-chronicled incident was not that big a deal. It does serve as an illustration of an executive who has gotten too big for his breeches. We said this before about Tom Vilsack: He is not king (though it is good to be the king), he is a governor duly elected by the people.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Branstad has virtually wiped out Iowa Workforce Development with the stroke of a pen, bringing sanction from the Iowa Supreme Court. He turned the Iowa Department of Economic Development into his own business giveaway agency with almost no public oversight. He tried to wipe out funding for lake restoration. His management of higher education in Iowa absolutely defies transparency.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Branstad has been a decent governor. He has worked hard with legislators across the aisle on tax reform, improving K-12 education and improving Iowa’s business climate.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Every year a little more hubris — not really arrogance — sets in around the governor. He reaches out less and doesn’t listen as hard as he once did. It’s tough. He has heard it all before, over and over again, and it can pass from left ear to right without so much as a beep.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">At some point the hubris outgrows the experience.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Must we have a Vilsack or a Culver or a Branstad? Must it be a Clinton or Bush or Kennedy? Are our benches that shallow? Is there no young Republican star in Iowa about to shine — Kim Reynolds, maybe, or Scott Raecker? Branstad, as a young conservative bull, must have chafed under the moderate yoke of Ray those long years. He stepped up and sort of shoved Ray out of the way. A new conservative era in Iowa dawned, coinciding perfectly with the election of Ronald Reagan.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">But that was 34 years ago.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Iowa has changed. Livestock production is entirely different. We are making corn strains using genetic engineering. Rural communities thriving when Branstad first arrived in Des Moines are shadows of their former selves. The state is more diverse across a range of indicators.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">We admire no Iowa politician more than Sen. Tom Harkin. He was elected to Congress in 1974. He made the right call in deciding not to run for re-election, as we had urged last year. Forty years in Washington is long enough. Someone should convince Sen. Chuck Grassley to hang it up before they have to cart him out.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Terry Branstad has been a good governor. He is pragmatic, approachable and, we think, sincere. He is not malicious or zealous. Yet, there has to be a whole host of really smart, capable people who meet the same criteria and can lead Iowa in a new era.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Are there no new ideas, no fresh faces to lead the Iowa Republican Party and bring it together?</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Apparently not.</span></span></p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/terry-branstad">Terry Branstad</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/iowa-workforce-development">Iowa Workforce Development</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/kim-reynolds">Kim Reynolds</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/art-cullen">Art Cullen</a></div></div></div>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:56:13 +0000clare@stormlake.com483 at http://www.stormlake.com